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I chose this topic because I had a friend who was anorexic, and he is still recovering from the disease even today. I learned a lot from this process, and I hold a completely different understanding of the disease. I learned how to identify symptoms for the disease , and that, in my opinion, is the most important thing . I will continue my research on this subject and I hope that many more people would be aware of the signs and symptoms, and eventually more people will recover from the disease.

Even though there is a small number of people who do recover from anorexia, it is difficult to determine what recovery really is. Often, symptoms of depression and anxiety about food and self-belief can linger for a lifetime, even if maladaptive eating patterns are no longer present.

Laurie Penny: Decoding the news: Some 600 children under the age of 13 have been treated in hospital in England for eating disorders in the past three years

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This article suggests that the reason for the fact that a lot of children are suffering anorexia is the "zero size culture": a culture in which thin is perfect, and if you can't see your ribs through your skin, you are not.

Following the inquest into the death of anorexia victim Sarah Houston, Jon Norrey spoke to a sufferer at a specialist mental health facility to gain a deeper insight into the mind of an anorexic pe...

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This is an article about a group of anorexic people who are interviewed about their disease. I chose it because it really shows what anorexic people think and how far they would go to become "perfect".

I was anorexic by the time my boyfriend Jeff and I moved to Manhattan in 2006. I was 22 years old, 6 feet tall, and 118.3 pounds. I had halfheartedly followed the South Beach Diet as a quick way to drop the extra pounds, but once I reached my desired weight, I just started starving myself.

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Paul Florez writes about his battle with anorexia. He is a co-founder of "The ink and the Code", a website that allows writers and artists to present their work.

Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating can be linked to depression. A guide to depression and eating disorders, and finding effective treatment for both.

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A health website shows the connection between eating disorders and depression. Each of these problems can lead to the other: Eating disorders can lead to depression, and depression can lead to eating disorders.

Most people with anorexia nervosa regard themselves as overweight even when they aren’t and end up starving themselves obsessively to meet their own expectations of a desired self image. But one should be warned that even though anorexia nervosa...

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It is important to identify potential risk behaviors that are present in individuals who may be susceptible to developing anorexia. The difficult aspect of this concerns our Western cultures emphasis on weight loss and thinness. Some of these warning signs could definitely be present in individuals that are dieting but not anorexic.

A scientific article about the connection between eating disorders (like anorexia) and vitamin deficiencies. It also shows how people with an eating disorder lack vital substances in their bodies like certain minerals.

A report by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reveals that up to one-half of individuals with eating disorders abuse alcohol or illicit drugs, compared to nine percent of the general population.

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A website about alcoholism shows the connection between eating disorders and substance abuse.

An article about the "anorexic voice" that anorexic people suffer from. A great and revealing article. I chose this article because it focuses on the psychological side of the disease, which really interests me .

Students at the University of Chicago have studied anorexia by experimenting with mice and the drug olanzapine. Researchers gave the mice little food and forced a lot of exercise, and the mice taking the medicine were more likely to maintain body weight. The challenges with medicating anorexic patients isn't finding the medicine, but getting the patients to take the prescription regularly.

Grainne Binns, from Dublin, became addicted to 'pro-ano' blogs that told her she was fat and her weight eventually plummeted to below 6st.

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This is an article about an anorexic girl who, after reading lots of pro-anorexia websites, decided to document her struggle through the disease using pictures and videos. Pro-anorexia websites are a dangerous phenomenon that makes people believe that anorexia is good for you.

The influence of the media on the proliferation of eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia nervosa cannot be refuted. From an early age we are bombarded with images and messages that reinforce the idea that to be happy and successful we must be thin.

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This page shows the statistics of the connection between anorexia and the media. It divides it into four categories: dieting, body image, models and finally movies, TV and music.

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